EligibilityThose eligible to vote in this poll are:-Users with accounts created before March 11, 2008-Users who are not using Cyrillic language services (there is a poll for Cyrillic users at lj_election_ru)-Users who have accounts with validated email addresses

VotingUsers should select their first choice, second choice, and third choice candidates from the drop-down list.

Determining the winnerThe poll will be closed at 9:00 p.m. PDT Thursday, May 29, 2008-If a user has more than 50% of the first-choice vote, that candidate will be declared the winner-If no user has more than 50% of the first-choice vote, we will begin using an Instant Runoff process. The user with the lowest tally for first-choice vote will be eliminated, and the second choice candidate on those ballots will be substituted as first choice. This process will continue (drop lowest candidate, reassign to next vote, tally again) until any user has more than 50% of the vote.-If all ballots are exhausted and no candidate has more than 50% of the vote, we will return to the first round and award the election to the candidate with the most 1st choice votes.

Member TermThe new Advisory Board member will be announced by the end of the day on Friday, May 30, 2008 and will begin their one-year term of service on June 1, 2008.